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> > Mail locking, as already been said *many* times.  However, depending on
> > usage, it may not bite anyone, or then again it might.  It's kind of
> > like serving your mail spool over NFS, most of the time it works, but
> > sometimes it totally corrupts your mbox.
> 
> But...  This changes *nothing* with mail locking in existing tools
> and, as you've stated several times, you don't really care about
> dtmail so its own [dys]function is not apropos!

You don't consider corrupting mbox as a bad bug?  Either fix dtmail
correctly, or not at all.  Making it 'run' but corrupt email is worse
than not running at all.

"Gee, let's use FreeBSD/CDE, so we can lose email by design."



Nate